net/tap: add support for fixed MAC addresses
authorPascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:30:21 +0000 (09:30 +0200)
committerFerruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:41:25 +0000 (10:41 +0100)
commitf6921783fee6d9ba60bb2f36d69159aa35fccece
treef51a56d94a1363b36e2ada429e3d31df2d589dde
parent799c5c602df35495e300613f7e9b7b54db7f38cf
net/tap: add support for fixed MAC addresses

Support for a fixed MAC address for testing with the last octet
incrementing by one for each interface defined with the new 'mac=fixed'
string on the --vdev option. The default option is still to randomize
the MAC address for each tap interface.

Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
doc/guides/nics/tap.rst
drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c